Comcast’s Digital Deal Guy: “Our Checkbook Is Open” (All Things Digital: Media Memo)

Leaked Tentative Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Schedule (Broadband Reports)

CRM All A-Twitter With New Salesforce.com App (CRM Buyer)

Health Care: For Oracle, an Acquiring Taste (All Things Digital: Digital Daily)

ORCL Shopping List: SaaS, Virtualization, Health Care (Barron's: Tech Trader Daily)


Murex Investments launching virtual business incubator (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Wolf Block's end marks an era's passing (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Seventh Modernized GPS Satellite Built by Lockheed Martin Successfully Launched From Cape Canaveral
Satellite Includes Demonstration Payload for New Third Civil Signal (PR Newswire)

Heartland Data Breach: Visa Questions Processor's PCI Compliance
Visa Executive: "We've Never Seen Anyone Who Was Breached That Was PCI Compliant" (Bank Info Security)


SAS Vows No Layoffs In 2009 (Channel Web)

ING asks executives to return bonuses (Wilmington News Journal)

Financial McCarthyism (A VC)

Nothing to Lose (or Risk Tolerance is a Competitive Weapon) (Redeye VC)

iCueTV and itaas Demonstrate The First Fully Operational T-Commerce Platform (Business Wire)



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Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet (TechCrunch)
Wharton Prof Eric Clemons' piece sets off quite a debate.

Redlasso Back From The Dead... Sort Of (Silicon Alley Insider: The Business Insider)

Wolf Block decides to dissolve
(Philadelphia Business Journal)

Red Hat Rises on Oracle Bid Speculation, Analyst Says (Bloomberg)

Threatened by the Web, Comcast and cable look to ... the Web (St. Paul Pioneer Press)

Users Can Now Buy Comcast DOCSIS 3.0 Modems
A number of retailers (including Fry's) start to offer them... (Broadband Reports)

Jonathan Takiff: Comcast, Sony hook up to offer cutting-edge tech (Philadelphia Daily News)

Countdown to Philly ETE 2009 (ZDNet Blogs)

Pharma Reps' Worst Fear Is Near: Outsourced to the Internet! (Pharma Marketing Blog)

Osage on its way
Unique new fund promises to help universities profit from their technology transfers (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Oracle to acquire Relsys (CNET News)
Furthers expansion into Life Sciences/Healthcare IT; Expect more deals.

Safend Announces 50% Revenue Growth for 2008
Endpoint Data Protection Leader Records Substantial Revenue Growth, Expands Solution Offering and Shores Up Industry Partnerships (Marketwire)
Despite its growth, Safend did lay off at least 8 employees late last year, according to the TechCrunch Layoff Tracker, although its not clear whether any of these were from its Philadelphia office.

Little Brother is Watching (SF.StreetsBlog.org)

GrubHub.com Makes Ordering Delivery Easier for Philadelphians (PR Web)
Food Delivery Service GrubHub Secures $2 Million In Series B Funding (TechCrunch)



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Salesforce Integrates Service Cloud With Twitter (PC World)

Critical meeting for Wolf Block (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Philly Tech Events

Brian Tierney on WSJ Report (CNBC)

Comcast Happy To Back 'Boss Button'
1.5 Million Tap Application On Tourney's First Day (Multichannel News)

WBEB Philly Takes Streaming Radio Detour (Media Week)

Social networking docs write more scripts: eMarketing (Medical Marketing and Media)

United colors of Rx
Pharmaceutical marketers are not noted for their skill in appealing to multicultural audiences, and the industry’s own experts believe that has to change. (Med Ad News)

Starbucks Brews Up Coffee Machines With Contactless Payment Technology
The coffee company is employing USA Technologies' RFID-based payment terminals in one-cup brewing machines designed for use in business offices. (RFID Journal)




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People News 3/22/09

Clear Align Adds New Vice President of Business Development (PR Newswire)

Agilence Names Derek Rodner VP of Marketing & Product Strategy
Company Hires Marketing Technology Expert to Expand Their Exposure in the Retail Market (Business Wire)

Goldman Sachs’ Anti-Money Laundering Expert Joins Regulatory DataCorp as Chief Compliance Officer (Business Wire)

Debra Brown Promoted to CEO of TMX Interactive, Bringing Years of Marketing Strategy Expertise to the Role (PR Newswire)

Hitchcock named president at CBS 3, CW Philly 57 (Philadelphia Business Journal)

Lockheed Martin Unit to Honor Superlative Employees in New Jersey, Georgia, and Virginia
(PR Newswire)

A Man’s Existentialism, Construed as Blasphemy
(New York Times)
A Philadelphia story.

ProfitPoint, Inc. Acquires Merchant Portfolio From ePayment Consultants (ePC). (GlobeNewswire via MarketWatch)

TAG Co. to close after loss in patent lawsuit (Miami
Herald)
Would-be competitor to Checkpoint Systems, Tyco Electronics shut down by Tyco suit.

IBM doing due diligence on Sun Microsystems (San Jose Mercury News)



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Apollo plans to own most of Charter after bankruptcy: sources (Reuters)

Clearwire Tests WiMax-Based Mobile Phones (Multichannel News)

Exclusive: WiMax Uncapped Speed Tests (Gizmodo)


QVC Will Pay $7.5 Mil to Settle FTC's Deceptive Claims Case (TV Week)

Cell Phone Tracking Can Locate Terrorists - But Only Where It's Legal (Fox News)

Obama names doctor to clear health-care paper swamp (Reuters)


Blog Recap—Monday March 16: Social Networking and Entertainment: A Mobile Perspective (Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic)

WorldGate Announces Stockholder Approval of Strategic Investment (Business Wire)

Unique Solutions Design buys Intellifit (Philadelphia Business Journal)


Oracle offers scaled-down version of Database Machine (Computerworld)

Select Comfort: Management malaise and ego (ZDNet Blogs)

RCM Technologies, Inc. Announces Results for Fifty-Two Weeks and Thirteen Weeks Ended December 27, 2008 (Globe Newswire via CNN Money)



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